Ahoy dynamoon, a smoll complaint. It appears my Mod was taken advantage of whilst it is broken.

It isnt much of a problem yet as it hasnt ben made.

引用自 silverfox123：

Ahoy dynamoon, a smoll complaint. It appears my Mod was taken advantage of whilst it is broken.

Unfortunately it's difficult for me to take any action based on so little infomation. Furthermore, while I may sometimes step in, I would prefer not to, and it would always be best if you as the mod's author could first write politely to whoever has posted an unauthorised copy. The less policing there has to be, the better it usually is for everyone! :) If you're not able to resolve a conflict with another user and need help, it may be better to reach out in private – you can see my profile for additional means of contacting me, if needed.

This species makes me laugh. There is literally no such thing as "originality" in the universe. I hope we get past this mine mine mine tribalism stage we are at at some point and just freely distribute things free of ego or possessiveness.

As it stands though the devs cannot "enforce" ownership for mods as technically they "own" all of the mods, not you.

would retrofits count as plagiarism as long as i say what ship i modified? i had recently started a small project or modifying the alicorn 2 by zyleand into the renegade series( currently the renegade 4. it has the same basic layout, but with a couple additions like a rear crew quarters, new paint job, ect.

Sorry for the very late reply. We don't really come around here often. I guess it's better late than never so here's my own reply.

What Dynamoon was talking about was literal copy/pastes of recently published workshop items. Person #1 would publish an item, and the next day they'd get on the workshop and notice person #2 had published an exact copy with no credits given. There was an issue with some people doing that back then, for some reason. It was beginning to become an issue big enough for it to bother us back then, so this is why the thread was made. It still happens from time to time, perhaps, so the thread is still relevant, but on a lesser level.

We're a tightly-knit community and word can spread quickly if someone copies someone else's work, and it leads to arguments on the forum, the Discord, Reddit, etc.. We try to prevent that if possible for obvious reasons.

Modifying an existing item and publishing it on your own, as long as credit is given, is totally acceptable. Even better if you ask the author's permission first, obviously.

If you notice a modder "abandonned" a mod you like and the more recent updates have made it obsolete or made it malfunction and thus you want to fix it and upload a new version of it, that's another thing as well. It's totally okay to update a mod you didn't create in the first place if you have good reasons to believe it won't be updated by the original author.

Usually mod authors are pretty chill when it comes to passing the torch to other people. It's just common courtesy to ask first, of course.

So yeah, to repeat myself: modifying ( retrofitting ) an existing submarine and publishing it on your own workshop is totally fine. There's many examples of this on the workshop ( the "Ulysses" is a good example of a workshop sub having many different versions ).